skulking
IPA: skˈʌɫkɪŋ
noun
- The action of one who skulks.
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Examples of "skulking" in Sentences
- They are often skulking, and feed on a range of insects.
- Clapper Lark is a skulking species, difficult to find when not displaying.
- Skulking, shirking, malingering, were all established tactics as it appeared.
- HARRIS: If I may, first of all, coming back to the use of the word "skulking" into the White House ...
- HARRIS: Christiane, if I may, first of all, coming back to the use of the word "skulking" into the White House ...
- He was a Potomac ranger in the 1690s, responsible for chasing down what were then referred to as "skulking" Indians.
- Deceit, trickery, lying, every kind of skulking underhand effort to get information; ceaseless endeavor to outwit and overcome
- Swain says there is no danger of it, but I would not care much if they did, as I hate the idea of skulking, as it were, out of the army, when my
- Besides making first-rate workmen, this method prevents the lads from getting into habits of workshop dishonesty, i.e. "skulking," and other annoyances.
- Stutter and Wibberly, two of the sceptics, happened to be caught that very afternoon by Bloomfield in the act of "skulking" dinner -- that is, of answering to their names at the call-over, and then slipping off unobserved to enjoy a rather more elaborate clandestine meal in their own study.
- My scholarship exam had fortunately concentrated on general intelligence and not math skills, and I'd survived from year to year in a kind of skulking dread of each new mathematical instrument that seemed designed for the sole purpose of tormenting me with its abstract and baffling technology.
- The Prince passed for a certain Lewis Caw, a surgeon's apprentice (who was actually 'skulking' in Skye at the time), and acted his part of humble retainer so well that poor Malcolm was quite embarrassed; and the rough servant-lass treated him with the contempt Highland servants seem to have for their own class, if 'Lowland bodies.'